Displays the current characteristics of a specific terminal. Each characteristic corresponds to an option of the SET TERMINAL command. Format SHOW TERMINAL [device-name[:]]
1 – Parameter
device-name[:] Specifies the name of the terminal for which you want the characteristics displayed. The default is your terminal (SYS$COMMAND).
2 – Qualifiers
2.1 /BRIEF
Displays a subset of more commonly used terminal characteristics.
2.2 /FULL
/FULL (default) Displays all terminal characteristics.
2.3 /OUTPUT
/OUTPUT[=filespec] /NOOUTPUT Controls where the output of the command is sent. If you do not enter the qualifier, or if you enter the /OUTPUT qualifier without a file specification, the output is sent to the current process default output stream or device, identified by the logical name SYS$OUTPUT. If you enter the /OUTPUT qualifier with a partial file specification (for example, specifying only a directory), SHOW is the default file name and .LIS the default file type. If you enter a file specification, it cannot include the asterisk (*) and the percent sign (%) wildcard characters. If you enter the /NOOUTPUT qualifier, output is suppressed.
2.4 /PERMANENT
Requires LOG_IO (logical I/O) or PHY_IO (physical I/O) privilege. Displays the permanent characteristics of the terminal.
3 – Examples
1.$ SHOW TERMINAL/BRIEF Terminal: _RTA1: Device_Type: VT300_Series Owner: _RTA1: Username: REHOR Terminal Characteristics: Speed: 9600 Page: 62 Width: 80 No Remote Hostsync TTsync No Modem Broadcast Wrap No Hangup No Disconnect Overstrike editing No Dialup Application keypad Line Editing In this example, the SHOW TERMINAL command displays a subset of the more commonly used terminal characteristics. 2.$ SHOW TERMINAL/FULL Terminal: _TTE4: Device_Type: VT102 Owner: FRANKLIN Physical Terminal: _LTA49 Input: 9600 LFfill: 0 Width: 80 Parity: None Output: 9600 CRfill: 0 Page: 24 Terminal Characteristics: Interactive Echo Type_ahead No Escape No Hostsync TTsync Lowercase Tab Wrap Scope No Remote Eightbit Broadcast No Readsync No Form Fulldup No Modem No Local_echo No Autobaud Hangup No Brdcstmbx No DMA No Altypeahd Set_speed Line Editing Overstrike editing No Fallback No Dialup No Secure server No Disconnect No Pasthru No Syspassword No SIXEL Graphics Soft Characters Printer port Numeric Keypad ANSI_CRT No Regis No Block_mode Advanced_video Edit_mode DEC_CRT DEC_CRT2 No DEC_CRT3 In this example, the SHOW TERMINAL command displays the characteristics of this specific terminal. If you are displaying statistics about a terminal allocated to another user, the input, output, LFfill, CRfill, width, page, and parity statistics are not shown (see the next example). 3.$ SHOW TERMINAL/FULL Terminal: _RTA1: Device_Type: VT300_Series Owner: _RTA1: Username: VILLA Remote Port Info: NODE12::VILLA Input: 9600 LFfill: 0 Width: 80 Parity: None Output: 9600 CRfill: 0 Page: 62 Terminal Characteristics: Interactive Echo Type_ahead No Escape Hostsync TTsync Lowercase Tab Wrap Scope No Remote Eightbit Broadcast No Readsync No Form Fulldup No Modem No Local_echo No Autobaud No Hangup No Brdcstmbx No DMA No Altypeahd Set_speed No Commsync Line Editing Overstrike editing No Fallback No Dialup No Secure server No Disconnect No Pasthru No Syspassword SIXEL Graphics No Soft Characters Printer port Application keypad ANSI_CRT Regis No Block_mode Advanced_video Edit_mode DEC_CRT DEC_CRT2 DEC_CRT3 No DEC_CRT4 No DEC_CRT5 Ansi_Color VMS Style Input <CTRL-H> Delete In this example, the SHOW TERMINAL command displays the full terminal characteristics.